Using latest 3.2.6 on Mac OSX, 3.2.6, when you change in Preferences -> Input and set your host key to None, the "a" key ("q" on French keyboard) doesn't work anymore on a WinXP or Linux Mandriva guest. On Linux even an xev doesn't react anymore.

When you set your hostkey back to Command Left (default) it works again. This is the first bug easy to reproduce.

The second limitation (bug?) is that when you set the default hostkey to Apple key and are using an external PC/Linux keyboard (not the MacBook Pro keyboard). Then, you can't use anymore the Alt Gr (right) key to access any composed key. Clicking on the Alt right key makes it permanent and you can't type any normal key. The only way that I found to exit that strange state is to click and hold the left Alt key and click on the right Alt key.

To resume, I can't change the default hostkey to "none" because of the first bug and can't keep the default because of the second bug (on non Apple keyboard).

nbrouard: you are probably best finding or creating a different ticket for that, as you are using an OS X host and this ticket concerns Linux and other X11 hosts (the keyboard handling is completely different for the two systems, and I am only familiar with the X11 variant).

pbrito81: could you please attach the log file from a run of a virtual machine that showed this problem? And just to be sure, did you tell the guest to use a Brazilian keyboard layout? The guest doesn't know about the host layout and has to be told separetely what sort of keyboard you are using.

Ah, it looks like they changed the right control key on the Brazilian model to serve as the Brazilian extra key (I found a photo online which shows that the US model has a right control). Just out of interest, did you have to do any special configuration to make it work in Linux?

Yes, i did. Not "so" special... By the way, what i did was selecting the right keyboard layout in System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layout, field Model. In my case it was "IBM ThinkPad R60/T60/R61/T61".

If I select a generic keyboard model, the "?/" key works just like the right control key, as you said. I can even copy/past with ?+c and /+v!